I’m a heavy macports user. I’ve installed tons of ports and for a while now, I was under the impression that macports matured enough to stop worrying about potential dependency nightmares. Basically macports already felt like the FreeBSD ports collection. Sure, there are b0rken portfiles now and then but thats ok. As I said – […]
Pops up a dialog asking for a search query, then runs grep on the selected dir in the project drawer and shows the results in a HTML output window with the search query highlighted. Just have a project with 8000 files in it and TextMates » Find in Project « command is just too slow […]
Yesterday, I stumbled across the Bogosort sorting algorithm. The example implementations looked horrible so I tried to implement it in a short and readable way, in Ruby of course. Here is my first and only attempt of a Ruby Bogosort. # Use: ruby bogosort.rb a b c def sorted for i in (0..$array.length-2) return false […]
After being in a radio show (german) about web browsers recently and reading all that hype about client side web applications, I got more and more thinking. I can’t see really the use case now and I wonder if I’m that alone with this opinion. But let me explain my thoughts on it. For now […]
I’ve read a couple of Ruby and Ruby on Rails books now and for those who wonder which book is right for them, I want to give recommendations. Ruby Books: My favourite ruby book is the “The Ruby Programming Language” from O’Reillys shelf. It is written by David Flanagan (author of Javascript, The Definitive Guide) […]